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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 18, 2011 10:03:04 GMT -8
It was still a fight, and the reason it WASN'T eventful was that it wasn't allowed to be =/
Nothing I do is allowed to be eventful =/
I have a feeling I should quit RPU, since no one likes me here.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 18, 2011 10:23:11 GMT -8
Well the zombies didn't.. really... do anything. They just kinda showed up, didn't really hurt anyone or attack anyone, and your characters just kinda went out and killed them. It was kinda just out of the blue and no one really had much chance to react to it. =/
Plus I dunno about you, but Tristan nearly killing two of my characters and then deciding to take up a fellowship with Ulfr sounds pretty eventful to me. =P Of all your characters on the RP right now I'd have to say Tristan is the one who's left the most impact. Funny you didn't include more Tropes about him...
((And besides, you and Blue and Anya obviously had some things going, and Yuri has some potential as a character... and maybe not in the ways you'd be inclined to imagine. =] ))
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 18, 2011 11:10:49 GMT -8
Well, I couldn't find any for him...I just randomly placed fingers on tropes and said "This kinda applies, so I'll include it".
I suppose Yuri has potential...and I want myself to have potential too.
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Post by samedi on Jul 18, 2011 20:44:03 GMT -8
You have to put yourself, as the author, into the story, the plotline. I don't mean that in the physical sense mind you. You seemed to be doing better when you first came back. You need to interact a bit more too, flesh out your backstory but remain aware of everyone elses. Keep in mind that while you and your OC's are in this RP, they've ceased to be your own, they now belong to the collective in the sense that the descisions, actions and personalities of every present character must to some degree influence them. The problem with your brotherhood characters is that rather than full-blown characters they come off programmed automatons, programmed by you and hard-wired to resist any outside influence.
If you took a little more time to get behind the eyes of other author's characters as well as your own you'd have much more of an impact in both HWYCA and the RPU at large.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 18, 2011 21:27:13 GMT -8
You have to put yourself, as the author, into the story, the plotline. I don't mean that in the physical sense mind you. You seemed to be doing better when you first came back. You need to interact a bit more too, flesh out your backstory but remain aware of everyone elses. Keep in mind that while you and your OC's are in this RP, they've ceased to be your own, they now belong to the collective in the sense that the descisions, actions and personalities of every present character must to some degree influence them. The problem with your brotherhood characters is that rather than full-blown characters they come off programmed automatons, programmed by you and hard-wired to resist any outside influence. If you took a little more time to get behind the eyes of other author's characters as well as your own you'd have much more of an impact in both HWYCA and the RPU at large. This. Samedi, thank you for that. You just summed up the entire point of this RP right there. I karma'd you (if that actually means anything at this point) but seriously, thanks for giving that explanation at least 10 times better than I could have. =]
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 18, 2011 22:37:45 GMT -8
I try, but it's too hard..
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Jul 18, 2011 22:51:02 GMT -8
Sometimes, bunnies chew on my butt and won't leave until I at least write/type them somewhere. Who's troping now: ourselves or the others?
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 18, 2011 22:54:19 GMT -8
I wish I could improve my RPing...
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Post by samedi on Jul 19, 2011 0:33:44 GMT -8
@pichu: thx
@blue: What?
@brianna: All that I ask is that you try
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 1:01:47 GMT -8
Well, it'd help to know how I'm doing in regards to that if I'm making progress
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 19, 2011 8:04:13 GMT -8
Well, so far as I can tell Samedi summed it up pretty well. Internally your characterization is alright. Some of your supporting characters (Lorena, Mark, Stan, Dan ect.) could still use a little bit of work it seems but other than that I am completely convinced that you know how to write a character and give them a working past and personality.
It's when it gets beyond that where you seem to be having trouble. You seem to already have your own set story line, your own set series of developments that you want to happen and will be instrumental in making happen. It's fine to have a plot that you eventually want to work in (I think we've all got something we want to work in, and that's what makes the plot here move so much) it's just that you don't seem to want to work other people's characters in or interact with them.
The solution here really isn't as difficult as you think it is. Just start focusing on other people's characters and the way your characters interact with them instead of just focusing on your own characters, story and plotline. When you start to notice and acknowledge other people's characters and what they're doing, they will probably start to notice you too.
@ Blue I know. XD Plot Bunnies can be interesting things. I wish they'd leave me alone sometimes. TT_TT
I still would like to see a Tropes topic but at the same time, I don't really know if I want to make ANOTHER topic here that is preeetty much just for us. =P
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 8:45:21 GMT -8
I thought I was doing that already.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 19, 2011 12:08:29 GMT -8
To an extent you are but, well, look at your trope list. You barely mentioned anyone's characters but your own. I'm not saying you never notice what the other characters are doing or never interact. You do, but I have yet to see your characters really end up being drastically changed by any of the events they've encountered.
I'm not saying this is a terrible terrible thing or anything. But if you do want to get noticed and contribute more to what's going on you have to let what other people are doing around you shape your characters in addition to what you want to do. What you would like to happen isn't going to happen all the time. In fact I'd say that 90% of the time every time I get an idea in my head that I'd like to see happen, something turns up that makes it so that it can't, and in turn, turns it into something even better. (Mana reviving Averis for example) You can't be so attached to what YOU want to happen. Most of the time what happens here is just, well, what happens.
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 12:36:22 GMT -8
How do I do that?
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Jul 19, 2011 13:31:35 GMT -8
@pichu: XD Yeah, they can be a pain sometimes. I hope you don't mind the curve balls being thrown. samedi- the HWYCA Hogwarts was a plot bunny that bit me on the ass and wouldn't stop.
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 14:37:27 GMT -8
Another idea! HWYCA theme songs.
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Jul 19, 2011 15:40:46 GMT -8
That would be funny. ^^
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 16:44:48 GMT -8
Ana and Yuri's theme, since they're very unlikely warriors. ^^
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Jul 19, 2011 18:13:51 GMT -8
Pichu-what are you going to do with Nadie and Pipp?
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 19, 2011 20:01:31 GMT -8
@_@ um.... I don't know?
Honestly I don't know what I'm going to do with them. I'll bring them back in, maybe if someone would inform Wyatt that something had happened to him, but other than that I don't really know how to go about bringing them back into the plot.
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Post by bluedemonhybrid on Jul 19, 2011 20:18:52 GMT -8
Hm...maybe he somehow checks in on Keiko and Ging?
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Post by Anya the Purple on Jul 19, 2011 20:41:43 GMT -8
I dunno much about tropes, but if More Deadly Than The Male can apply to brother/sister relationships, it definitely applies to Josie.
@thread: We should petition for our own sub-board XD
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 19, 2011 21:01:31 GMT -8
@thread: We should petition for our own sub-board XDSir I would love this. So very much. I dunno how obnoxious people would think we were, but if this could happen.... so much happiness would be mine right now. ='D
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 21:13:28 GMT -8
We could move all our stuff there, including my theme song idea
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 19, 2011 21:27:31 GMT -8
If we couldn't get our own board we COULD probably just make a forum for all our random whims and junk like that. Soas to not clutter up the RPU. =P I dunno how NECESSARY it would be, but it certainly would keep things out of the way. Would only have.. Roughly six or seven members from here, unless other people from the RPU wanted to join. Certainly is a thought.
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 21:40:39 GMT -8
You mean make an entirely new forum for it? I could do that.
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Post by Darth Pichu on Jul 19, 2011 21:42:46 GMT -8
I dunno. I mean, I'll do it if it comes to that. I don't want to jump in on anything because I'm not sure if it'd be necessary. But if it DID come up I'd do it. =P
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Post by Brianna Ravenquist on Jul 19, 2011 23:12:55 GMT -8
Actually, I think I'd do it and make you my right hand man....er...woman. I have technological know-how, and I also made a forum before. For Harry Potter RPing.
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Post by Anya the Purple on Jul 20, 2011 5:23:44 GMT -8
^Sounds like fun. We could even have different threads for different places, so you don't get all confused with who's where.
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Post by samedi on Jul 20, 2011 5:38:15 GMT -8
Sounds cool.
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